Rhetoric

Drawing on original archival research in the rhetoric of civil rights, the author explores this largely underexamined rhetorical studies site In Liturgy of Change: Rhetorics of the Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Elizabeth Miller examines civil rights mass...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423835Author Jennifer GroulingFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Wac ClearinghousePublisher Wac Clearinghouse

In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action-a theory that treats humans as "symbol-using animals" to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs-to account for the way in which...

In the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the "illegal alien" took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our...

In Wit's End, Sean Zwagerman offers an original perspective on women's use of humor as a performative strategy as seen in works of twentieth-century American literature. He argues that women whose direct, explicit performative speech has been...

Women's contribution to rhetoric throughout Western history, like so many other aspects of women's experience, has yet to be fully explored. In pathbreaking discussions ranging from ancient Greece, though the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern...

The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries. The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery:Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how...

An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof. In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the...

Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes determined in 1927 that sterilization was a legitimate means of safeguarding the nation's...

Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender. In Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard makes...

Much has been written about Ralph Waldo Emerson's fundamental contributions to American literature and culture as an essayist, philosopher, lecturer, and poet. However, despite wide agreement among literary and rhetorical scholars on the need for further...

Women physicians in nineteenth-century America faced a unique challenge in gaining acceptance to the medical field as it began its transformation into a professional institution. The profession had begun to increasingly insist on masculine traits as...

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Over the past ten years the writing curriculum in colleges and universities has been adapted to recognize cultural diversity in the classroom. By studying this changing curriculum, the contributors to this volume attempt to clarify the ways in which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646424016Author Amber M BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press

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Jeremiah Alberg's fascinating book explores a phenomenon almost every news reader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from war zones, political battlefields, and economic centres, only to be drawn in by headlines announcing a...

From the Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg Address, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 'Day of Infamy' speech to John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, it is no exaggeration to suggest that the ongoing American democratic revolution has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646424382Author Courtney Adams WootenFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press

Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric.A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these...

This volume features two dimensions of Michael Osborn’s work with rhetorical metaphor. The first focuses on his early efforts to develop a conception of metaphor to advance the understanding of rhetoric, while the second concerns more recent efforts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423675Author Dan MelzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press

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Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric.A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these...

Examining rhetorical engagement with difficult topics Museums offer an opportunity to reenvision rhetorical education through their address of hard, discomforting histories that challenge visitors to relive traumatic events and work toward a better...

In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and...

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Treatment of Error offers a realistic, well-reasoned account of what teachers of multilingual writers need to know about error and how to put what they know to use. As in the first edition, Ferris again persuasively addresses the fundamental error...

This volume uniquely explores critical and corpus-based perspectives on intercultural rhetoric. Many chapters examine what is meant by "culture" and how that affects research and pedagogy, particularly with regard to new forms of literacy. The...

It is easy to argue that the need for attention to how we navigate rhetorically within and across cultures has never been greater, given ever-increasing global migrations and seemingly instantaneous global communication. Yet, the conceptual basis of...

Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before the fall of Rome. This unique anthology of primary texts in classical rhetoric contains the work of 24 ancient writers from Homer through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816530748Author Cristina Devereaux RamirezFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

In Performing Prose, authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a...

Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as first philosophy explicates a human obligation and responsibility to and for the Other that is an unending and an imperfect commitment. In Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication...

For nearly three decades, writers from the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing have traveled to Arkansas’s public and private schools to enrich classrooms by contributing a unique dose of teaching methods. The workshops and sessions these...

Despite the tepid reception of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978, the Supreme Court has thrice affirmed its holding: universities can use race as an admissions factor to achieve the goal of a diverse student body. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817321093Author Paul Elliott JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

The period of apartheid was a perilous time in South Africa's history. This book examines the tactics of resistance developed by those working for the Weekly Mail and New Nation, two opposition newspapers published in South Africa in the mid- and late...